Improvement in railroad-car seats



1.l RICHARDSON.

K Railroad Car Seats. l No.152,l'69. Patemedlunienan'.

UNITED' ASTATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN RICHARDSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAILROAD-CAR SEATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,169, dated June 16,1874; application filed October 24, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN RICHARDSON, of the city, county, and State ofNewYork, have invented an Improvement in Railroad- Oar Seats; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full and correct description of thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure1 is a perspective view of a railroadcar seat with my improvementattached. Fig.

2 is a sectional view, showing the mechanism of the end; and Fig. 3 is adetailed view of the end of the foot-rest.

The object of my invention is to provide a basket or receptable beneatha railroad-car seat for the reception of baggage,` clothing, hats, Sie.,which will be secluded and safe, and at the same time clean andconvenient.

My invention consists in attaching to the braces that support the backof a reversible car or other seat a revolving open wire-work basket,which is made to revolve or oscillate by means of slots and arms, sothat it will automatically take its position when the carseat isreversed, and will lock itself in position, so that its contents cannotbe abstracted by parties in the seat in the rear. Attached to thisbasket is a foot-rest, which travels with it when the seat is beingreversed.

In the drawings, A is an ordinary railroad reversible car-seat, with thereversible back B; and C C are the ends, and D D are the braces whichsupport the back, and to which the back is pivoted, and between which itoscillates, being stopped by the beveled shoulders d upon the ends ofthe braces. The opposite ends of the braces D are elongated beyond thefulcrum c, and upon this end is placed a wrist-pin, f, the object ofwhich will hereafter more fully appear. Pivoted to the center of theends or the supports of the car-seat are metallic plates or frames F F,ot' the form shown. To the base and altitude of the triangular part ofthe plate F are applied the ends of the wire basket G, suitably secured,and also strengthened with rods. At right angles to the hypotenuse ofthe triangular part of said plate F projects an arm, H, which contains aslot, c', running its whole length, or nearly so, and into which thewrist -pin f operates. Pivoted between two sliding, slotted arms, K,sliding upon pins upon the plate F, is the foot-rest L, which is alsoprevented from revolving and secured by a stop-shoulder similar to theseat-back before referred to, said shoulders being upon the ends of thearms K, as seen at Fig. 3.

The operation of my invention is as follows: In the act of reversing theback B ot' the seat A, the braces D are turned upon the fulcrums c, andthe wrist -pins f are caused to travel through the slots t' until theyreach nearly to the center of the plates F, the length of the short armsof the braces D being less than the distance between the fulcrums e andthe pivots of the plates F, carrying with them the arms, H, and causingthe ends F and basket Gr to revolve until the horizontal side becomesvertical, and the vertical side horizontal, and the basket is in properposition to receive baggage from the opposite side of the seat. It willbe noticed that the edge of the basket reaches the bottom of the seatbefore the back B reaches the top of the seat; or, in other words,before the brace D becomes at right angles with the slot i, or tangentto the circle of motion described by the plate F. In -this position thebasket is loose, and can be revolved by force being applied to it; but,when the back B is brought down upon the seat A, the wrist-pins move outin the slots t until they pass the point at which the slots and braces Dare at right angles, and in this position the basket is securely lockedto the bottom of the seat, and its contents cannot be removed by personssitting in the seat be-A hind. The foot-rest L slides up toward thepivots upon which the basket swings by means ot' pins in the slottedarms K, for the purpose of allowing the basket to oscillate, and at thesame time, when down, to be comfortable for the feet. When the basket isbeing rotated,

4the foot-rest moves over the floor, sliding up upon the pins, andsliding down again upon the opposite side.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Fatent, is-

l. A reversible car-seat provided underneath with a revolving oroscill-ating basket or receptacle, G, for baggage, substantially asdescribed.

2. .A revolving or oscillating basket, G, for bagga ge, in. combinationwith a reversible backed car-seat, substantially as described.

3. The combination ot' the elongated braces i), slotted frame F, andWrist-pin if, by which the basket G is reversed automatically with thereversing' of the car-seat back.

4. The method for looking the basket in its position, essentially bymeans of the slot 17 land Wrist-pin f, substantially as set forth.

5. The foot-rest L, in combination with a revolving basket, G,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed, atNew York city, this 21st day of October, A. I). 1873.

JOHN RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

W. G. BERGEN, JNO. VINCENT.

